I've installed the latest version of cygwin and cygwin/X. When I attempt to use startx in multiwindow mode, the X server hangs.
If I use either of the following, I get the X server started, but I don't have a useful window manager. startx -- :0 XWin -clipboard I tried the identical installation steps on another XP machine, and all works fine. So, there is something strange about -multiwindow which is stopping me, And it appears specific to a particular XP machine. Any ideas on how to debug or isolate the problem? Thanks, Jim XWin.log dump . Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-9 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 994 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello Hangs here ..